Really shitty pile

Good morning everyone!

So, we’re coming out of our first winter with chickens and I’m trying to decide what to do with all the poop and old bedding. I started thinking... could I just mix chicken poop, dog poop and human poop with bedding and straw and make a mixed poo compost pile? I mean, I know I can do that, but can I do it safely?

Everyone talks about how great chicken manure is but also say dog poop is full of harmful parasites. But I know humanure is a thing, so how is it that the poor dog poop gets left out? Can it all just be treated like humanure and composted hot to be used wherever? Or my other thought is to hot compost it all starting soon but to let it sit until next spring or later before using any, and probably not using it with any root crops.

My dog poop and dirty coop bedding and everything else all go into a  composting bed where the chickens turn and aerate it.
Since it is continuous operation, instead of discrete finished batches,I don't use it in direct contact with annuals.
I will fill the bottom of a transplant hole with it


If you make a dedicated pile that is at least a cubic yard volume ,and you put the dog and human waste in the center, it should heat up great and kill the pathogens
That was my take away from the humanure handbook by Jenkins

Gene Logsdon in his book "Holy Shit", seemed to think that putting dog shit in the land-fill should be a crime.
As William said, Jenkins' most recent Humanure Handbook is a good reference for getting it right also.

My key take-aways were to have lots of absorbing bedding under and around the pile of shit. The chicken shit can really heat up. Some parasites can survive decent heat and have protective coatings, but if you let it sit a couple of years and then use it around trees, preferably covered with fresh mulch, I suspect your healthy microbes will take care of it.

Not mentioned by Gene or Joe, but from more recent reading, adding charged biochar to the mix can do really good things also, and it's not that hard to make in small quantities (we use an old stainless pot in our wood stove in the winter.)